Let’s Get Metaphysical
2012
Steel, copper, tube, regulators, propane, fire
Approx. 10mx5m

Splendour in The Grass Festival, Belongil Fields, Byron Bay, July 2012

Developed as part of the Splendid Art Lab program, Pyrotechnic text work Let's Get Metaphysical was premiered at Splendour in the Grass music festival in July 2012. Using Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 single "Physical" as a placeholder, the phrase "let’s Get Metaphysical" exploits this reference to music history, encouraging punters to transcend the more visceral suggestions Newton-John and her writers originally intended, and explore higher mental planes and states of consciousness.